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HLSC Page | 1In the profession of health, the healthcare employees are assumed to obtain information andskills related to ethics which will be totally based on their respective profession because it aimsat delivering the right direction and paths to the professionals to provide a quality care to thosewho need it. Every profession in the healthcare situation has a serious ethical code of conductalong with the basic principles which intended them in order to complete their work of duty ofcare within the specific criteria (Morton, Fontaine, Hudak & Gallo, 2017). The mentioned essaywill aim at analyzing the ethical issues and problems implanted in the next situation. It willemphasis on the human right to treatment, human dignity, and patient’s autonomy. Similarly, itwill also create a transparent ethical view on the ethical problems including the basic principlesof ethics by focusing on the burses code of conduct. Likewise, this essay will also include somerecommendations required to solve the mentioned issues. According to the given case study, Amos was a student who used to live at a residential propertyaway from home. One day, Amos along with the other boarders’ students had serious symptomsof cholera outbreak and he was admitted in the hospital. They all were admitted in the hospitalbut due to shortage of nurses and doctors, the hospital decided to restrict the treatment to thosestudents who lived in hostels. Amos argued to get the treatment but he was sent back without anytreatment. Finally, Amos decided to go back to his home but till then, he was tremendouslydehydrated, heavily in shock and dies within hours of his arrival to his home. So, this is casewhich took life of the Amos because of the lack of proper care and negligence. The ethicalproblems found in the case is the failure to uphold human rights, human ignominy and patient’spersonal sovereignty. Similarly, human rights is comprised of three major segments which include protecting,respecting and fulfilling. Every person has an equal right to gain respect to control and manage

HLSC Page | 2sickness that must be prevented in order to lead a healthy and better life. It is assumed that apatient must not be ill-treated, disrespected or misused at any worse cases. Every doctors andnurses must not deny to take care of the patients at any cases. Australian Charter of Healthcareintroduced right to access high quality health care similarly with respect and dignity (Davis &Kimble, 2011). Amos had also an equal right to be treated like other students. In the given case,Amos’s right to obtain quality care was suspected making an excuse of the lack of doctors whichwas totally wrong. Amos was taken into care and his dignity was not sustained because of whichhe lost his life. The whole team of hospital could not save his life and respected Amos humanright and human dignity while performing their work for other students. So, the untenablejudgment was taken by the doctors and nurses in the hospital which led to death (AustralianCommission on safety and quality in health care, 2016)Additionally, it was assumed that ethical principles aims at making right decision at tough times.Likewise, conflicts can also be generated. In the healthcare settings, ethical conflicts are majorlyseen because of the comparison that take place between advantages and injuries, the right of oneindividual compared with other, truth and honesty and hospital advantages vs. patient’sadvantages. Hence, nurses are directed to attempt to be kind and respect the dignity of everyindividual. Initially, non- maleficence values stated that causing injuries to the patients is not agood feeling (Banks, 2009). In the given case, in order to treat Amos, the doctors and burse mustadmit him in the hospital for once. Restricting him lowered his self-morale and self-esteem andthis led to death.Secondly, whole talking about the benefits of patients, the doctors and nurses must authorizegeneral wellbeing of Amos to treat him in the best possible ways (Parse, 2010). Additionalsupervision must be given to him because he was not even boarder students who can be taken

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